Album Rating: 4.0
Very nice. Great arrangements and transitions as we’ve come to expect.
First run through and it looks like they’ve done it again
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Album Rating: 3.0
idk man for every good song on this (starless paths) there's a mundane one. there's a lot of glaring moments where the lyrics don't suit the instrumental backdrop - especially on 'the witch hunter'. it really feels like they tried to fit pre-existing material around the theme rather than writing *from* the theme.
not to mention 'white christ' is absolutely the worst song of their career.
though i will say i'm glad that the singles were the worst songs on this - but the rest is like... idk man. it's definitely *good* but it doesn't feel either substantiably different from their other material or a good match with the concept.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Godforsaken and Starless Paths stand out. I’m never concerned about lyrics tbh. White Christ is more of a modern RC song than Insomnium. It’s a bit out of place
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Album Rating: 3.0
it's not the lyrics are necessarily bad (mostly) but they aren't a match for the music at all.
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Album Rating: 3.5
"not to mention 'white christ' is absolutely the worst song of their career."
I don't even need to listen to the rest of this album to strongly agree with you
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Album Rating: 3.7
A good producer wouldn't let White Christ make the cut, but the album is not defined by this song.
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Album Rating: 3.0
it *is* however defined by thematic mismatch, and that song suffers the most from it.
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Album Rating: 3.7
Mismatch in what sense?
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Album Rating: 3.0
as i said, between the lyrics and the instrumentation. it feels like they threw these lyrics onto other songs rather than recorded songs specifically for the concept they had in mind.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I don’t always trust hasty impressions. Albums such as this that need to be taken in as a full body of work need time to marinate IMO.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I dig White Christ. One of the weaker tracks but still bangs with that melo emo death we all know and love.
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Album Rating: 3.5
white christ has grown on me tbh, far from the worst song theyve made. And Bells They Toll from HLaG is way worse imo
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Album Rating: 4.5
I do dislike me some Bells they toll, ngl. Need more time to listen to Anno but first impressions, it's a step up from Heart Like a Grave.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Omnium Gatherum still riffs so don't know why you think Markus Vanhala is the reason they don't riff anymore.
He is credited with music on 6 of 10 tracks on Heart Like a Grave, 4 of which he is the sole contributor. I said that half in jest since he happened to come into the band at a time when they transitioned to their new sound but overall I dislike his riffing style. Pale Morning Star is a banger and he wrote it, but that's an exception rather than the norm imo
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Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off
Pale Morning Star may very well be my favorite Insomnium song.
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Album Rating: 2.5
It's the best song they've written in their modern era and it's not even close
Giving this album a spin now
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i want moar gothenborg rifffs
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Album Rating: 2.5
After first spin my takeaway is that "The Unrest" is the best song on the album which is....scary.... but it's truly a lovely song. "Starless Paths" is second best.
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I know it has been mentioned already, but that first paragraph being intentionally misleading is rubbing me the wrong way. Witch trials were a non-factor in the demographic catastrophy of the region. I don‘t know why you have to distort history to show how harsh life was in Finland 1696 when the death toll speaks for itself.
Yes, I know this is completely irrelevant to the music…
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Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off
If I fail my test on the plague of 1696, I'm coming back here. I just want you to know...
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